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Giuliani: Obstruction questions from Mueller are a 'no-go'

President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani maintained Thursday that the president would not answer any questions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team about obstruction of justice, calling them a “no-go.”

Mueller’s team acknowledged that executive privilege issues could complicate their push for an interview with Trump about possible obstruction and didn’t ask for written responses on that matter, The New York Times reported.

Those questions are “not ruled in or out,” Giuliani told NBC News in an interview Thursday night, shortly after the original reports that he had said otherwise.

“We’re very opposed to that [but] we’re not closing it off 100 percent,” Giuliani also told Politico on Thursday. “We don’t want to mislead [prosecutors] and have them think it’s easy, but we have also not closed our mind to it.”

Mueller is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and whether the president has obstructed justice as a means to hinder that probe.